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The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Living
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Living
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Antonia Macaro
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By (author) Julian Baggini
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Popular philosophy Popular psychology |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781848313774
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Classifications | Dewey:158.1 |
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Publishing Details |
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Icon Books
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Imprint |
Icon Books
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Publication Date |
3 May 2012 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage - aka Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro - have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will, spirituality and independence, this book - their first together - expands on these columns and adds much more. Through questions of existential unease, metaphysical trauma and - for instance - how much we should care about our appearance, intellectual agony uncle and aunt team Baggini and Macaro begin to piece together the answer that we'd all like to hear: what is the good life, and how we can live it?
Author Biography
Julian Baggini is one the UK's best-known philosophers. Previous books include The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and The Ego Trick. Antonia Macaro, his partner, has over twenty years' experience as an existential psychotherapist and is the author of Reason, Virtue and Psychotherapy.
Reviews[A] very elegant, high-class self-help book -- Steven Poole, Guardian It gave me some serious food for thought' -- Bookbag
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